{"id":966,"date":"2016-06-17T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2016-06-17T03:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T07:16:58","slug":"week-92-watch-for-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Week #92 – Watch for Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Watch for Rainbows” (photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n

Week #92 – Watch for Rainbows<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to talk Summer Fun when tragedy has struck (several times in one week).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Christine Grimme, Pulse, Disneyworld. \u00a0Add to that friends and family who are feeling marginalized, suffering losses, and facing serious health issues. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly — it feels\u00a0ridiculous to to talk about Happyness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And yet,\u00a0that’s the topic at hand.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen a few\u00a0things in my life. \u00a0I lived in\u00a0Manhattan during 9\/11. \u00a0Watched rounds of people lose their jobs week after week during the crash. \u00a0Held my loyal but failing pet in my arms while a vet administered euthanasia. \u00a0Sat powerless\u00a0at my brother’s feet\u00a0while he struggled to get just one little sip of air.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0know what it’s like to feel cynical, disillusioned, and angry.<\/p>\n

I also know that we always find the thing we are looking for.<\/p>\n

You can see the rain — or the rainbow. \u00a0Either way you’ll be right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your Happyness Challenge for the week ahead: Watch for rainbows!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The name of this blog is “Spread Happyness” because my brother taught me\u00a0that Happyness comes FROM us — not to us. \u00a0<\/span>As news continues to unfold and fallout radiates from this week’s tragedies, don’t wait for good news to come to you. \u00a0Seek it out…and spread It! \u00a0YOU are the source!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Find the beauty.*
\nLook for helpers.**
\nWatch for rainbows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are two ways of spreading light: be the candle…or the mirror that reflects it.” \u00a0(Edith Wharton)<\/em><\/p>\n

Spread Happyness — watch for rainbows! \u00a0And tell me what you see this week!<\/strong><\/p>\n

*\u00a0Viktor Frankl’s memoir\u00a0Man’s Search for Meaning<\/em>\u00a0is an\u00a0excellent resource for\u00a0finding hope in the face of overwhelming hopelessness.<\/p>\n

** Mister Rogers\u00a0is credited for this saying, recalling that his mother recited this to him as a child to soothe him in the wake of scary news stories.<\/p>\n

6\/17\/16 by Grace Church
\n<\/em>\u00a9 Grace Church
\ngrace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week #92 – Watch for Rainbows It’s hard to talk Summer Fun when tragedy has struck (several times in one week). Christine Grimme, Pulse, Disneyworld. \u00a0Add to that friends and family who are feeling marginalized, suffering losses, and facing serious health issues. \u00a0 Honestly — it feels\u00a0ridiculous to to talk about Happyness. And yet,\u00a0that’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}